US Patent Issued to Apple on April 8 for "Dual embedded storage nodes and vertical transfer gates for pixels of global shutter image sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,099, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dual embedded storage nodes and vertical transfer gates for pixels of global shutter image sensors" was invented by Dajiang Yang (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong Wei Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaofeng Fan (San Jose, Calif.), Oray O. Cellek (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Xiangli Li (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kai Shen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are global shutter image sensors and methods of operating such image sensors. An image sensor includes a semiconductor wafer having a light receiving surface opposite an electrical connection surface; an o...